Back to my vacation recap:
Day two at the beach was spent, well at the beach. Soaking up the sun and avoiding the pigeons. That night we went to dinner at a place called "The Chicken or the Egg." Yes, thats right. The locals call it the "Chegg." The restaurant specializes in chicken and breakfast food and all I can say is that everything we got was delish! And bonus, Pete doesn't like fried pickles (seriously, I don't get it either) so I got them all to myself. Nom nom nom.
One of the claims to fame for the restaurant is that Adam Richmond from the Travel Channel's "Man vs Food" came in and did a food challenge there by eating a dozen of their hottest wings in 15 minutes. Pete would have also done said challenge, but he didn't want to be "sick" the next couple days of vacation. I cannot thank him enough for making this decision.
On to day 3....
Day three was a lot like day two, except I finally remembered to take pictures! We started out by going to the beach, but then we got bored and decided to check out some of the local sites such as Barnagate's lighthouse and Viking Village. The lighthouse was exactly as it sounds, a lighthouse surrounded by ocean and some walking trails. Viking village sadly did not have any vikings. Rather, it was just a cute little shopping area that ran a lot of fishing boat trips.
Barnagate's Lighthouse
Cute photo (although the wind was NOT in our favor this day).
Viking man (and Pete) outside of Viking Village
After seeing the sites we went to mini golf and dinner and called it a night. We had to rest up for our meeting with the man, the legend, Robert Irvine, the next day.
Yes, you read that correctly. WE. MET. ROBERT IRVINE. You may be asking yourself who he is. If you have to ask that question, do a google search, I will not waste my time explaining.
Yes, the next day we got up bright and early to head to Atlantic City on our way home. A while ago I had gotten tickets to the Atlantic City Food and Wine Festival, and the event that I purchased them for was Sunday morning. Irvine was supposed to come and talk about the different types of coffee and tea from around the world. Yea, cheezy I know, but we couldn't afford the $100/ticket dinner he hosted the night before. Anyway, it ended up being a bunch of vendors from Brooklyn trying to sell you their coffee goods. It didn't really matter anyway, since our goal was just to meet him.
Irvine made his grand entrance after about an hour of us sitting there listening to the stupid vendors tell us why need their coffee. He just casually walked right in. Clearly I am a stalker and noticed him right away and made a beeline for the front of the line by the stage. I have to say I'm pretty proud of where I ended up and He. Was. Awesome. He came onto the stage and just went right into a Q &A session from the crowd about anything they wanted to ask (nothing coffee related mind you). Pete was soo close to getting to ask a question, but Irvine went to someone else instead and said he would come back to him and never did. Womp womp.
In the end it doesn't matter because we got this awesome pic:
Yes. Thats right. One of our goals for the day may have been to see if his biceps were real. We got something even better. A bicep picture. Boom. I can't even think of another word to describe how awesome this was.
Just in case you didn't think I got close enough to the stage when he was talking, this pic will prove you wrong. Soo proud of my stalkerish tendencies to get close to the stage.
Oh yea, Ann Burrell was there too. But I don't like her and she was kinda snobby so I wont bore you with the details of her Q&A session.
After Irvine, we hung around a bit, did some window shopping, played some slots and went home.
It was an awesome end to an awesome long weekend!
